Author, musician, keynote speaker, and sustainability expert

Author, musician, keynote speaker, and sustainability expert

About Alan

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Alan AtKisson is an author, consultant, speaker, and executive trainer, focused on issues of sustainability — from global to local. He advises governments, companies, cities, NGOs, and the United Nations. He has been working at the forefront of sustainability since 1988, providing expert insight and inspiring people with his creative and multi-faceted approach to making positive change happen. His tools include books, planning methods, keynotes, workshops, music, and other innovative approaches to help people transform complex systems. In 2013, he was inducted into the international Sustainability Hall of Fame.

As founder and president of the AtKisson Group, Alan has developed a professional network of sustainability-dedicated Affiliates and Associates in 15 countries. Members of the AtKisson Group include leading university centers of expertise in their regions, as well as non-profit foundations and private consultancies. AtKisson Group members advise companies, governments, cities, and educational institutions on sustainability strategy, policy, research, and initiative design.

Alan is the lead developer of the VISIS Method, the Sustainability Compass, the Pyramid workshop for sustainable development planning, and other tools and methods now used around the world. His work has influenced thousands of people who use these tools to manage CSR programs, learn the principles of systems thinking, convene stakeholders, and to facilitate other aspects of modern sustainability practice.

In 2013, Alan was inducted into the Sustainability Hall of Fame by the International Society of Sustainability Professionals in recognition for his pioneering work in establishing sustainability consulting as a profession, and for the inspiration he has provided to thousands of other professionals around the world. He joined a list of luminaries in the field that includes John Elkington, Hunter Lovins, Karl-Henrik Robèrt, Mathis Wackernagel, Hazel Henderson, and Ray Anderson, among others.